The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-04

ceiyed here las Gi2'. 10! the burning OF
the steamer BradGl>h johnson. used ds a
boarding house at Jackson or the Big Bee
river, eleven miles above Mobile Oil We'd
nesday night There ], no telegraph wire
L. the point The Johnson vas lying
with her nose IN the bank and gang
plank cut. A. {. Yell, o.e OF the bosses,
gave the following description OF the FIRE:
ii hal just gone t. bed when heard
TIE cEY o. FIRE
cot into my pants and seized NV other
effects and rushed out INTO the cabin
There had been party Of tnen at there
pia, ing cards and they sew smoke rising.
hen l came into the abIn the fire seemed
To he In tn state room ait OF the partition
on the port el-e, and the men who had
been PLAYING cards were standing there IL
the door looking IN at the ire. They
seemed like they were dad and did not
but there they
STOOD STARING AT IT,
! hallo3ed "for Gods sake, what are YOU
standing there for. ke the men up and
let Us get out Oh here" There was an old
man, in Albanian, in the room next to
mine, don't know his name. He was
asleep when went TO beJ for heard him
snoring, whether | got i'm awake or not
cont know, hammered and POUNDED
with all my might. You see the smoke
vas already filling the cabin and the men
were
RUNNING AROUND LIKE MAD.
| hardly know what happened, | ran
forward through the cabin and my eyes
and mouth got SO full OF smoke
that did not know where
Il was going. TIE negroes were
mostly lying on the lower deck. They all
came running fCrwa i about the same
time We did. The vessel burned very last
AMI was solid mass OF Il tmes in a mo-
ment When l had reached the bank
Turned around and saw the pilot house and
texas fall in with the negroes. They He'd
Up the bank In { mob and iuShed To- the
WOOGs where they
HUDDLED LIKE SHEEP
aud could not be persuaded 10 come
down to the boat. They knew that some
of their number were lost in the burning
boat and hey were seemingly suPersti-
tious about IT, They d ii not want 10 go
near the place. 50 the boat become a mass
of flames and burned for about half
ain hour when she sank. As
soon "a / got ashore there was report
tina; there was men IN tae water. SklHS
were manned and sent TO their rescue.
They picked up Mr. Darby, one OF the
Carson men. Nm. Neal, an Erglishman
IN one OF the skiis had two negroes right
near him but they
SUNK OUT OF SIGHT
Nm. Bowling, The cook, who received
slight burns on his face and hands, found
a white man lying In a state room door.
Dan HillhOuse came up and the two drag
9, the man, supposed to be McElroy, out
of the boiler ,ck. The man was I'M
CONSCIOUS from the effects OF smoke
iust then the flames burst out up the eide
and down they jumped over the railing to
save their liv,s, HillhOuse, however said
he heard a man groaning just outside the
cabin and he went back 10 rescue IN Is
man. He never came out again and he
was not seen alive after that and IL Is BE-
lived he was
SACRIFICED IN THE NOBLE ATTEMPT
10 save another mans life. There Is no
telling Just how many lost their lives In
the tire, some say that ten Others are miss
ing hut all that know
are the Two negroes, Lewis
Adar.s and Benjamin Bush, who were
drowned and two whites missing. think
two other white men were burned with the
boat and there must have been others for
l don't think they had chance to be
awakened and then escape for it was all
/ could do with the smartest kind of run
ming to get out alive.